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Monday, December 19, 2011

A well respected monk, Capucino Ambrosio compromises himself with his
carnal lust for a pupil, a woman disguised as a monk, she tempts the
monk to transgress and he is soon found desiring another, the innocent
Antonia. Matilda uses magic spells to help the monk in his pursuit of
Antonia, whom he later rapes and kills. It later emerges that Matilda is
an instrument of Satan in female form. Focus also is also shone on
Antonia's previous relationship with Lorenzo, whose sister is tortured
by hyprocritical nuns for her own relationship. Returning to Ambrosio,
he is delivered to the Inquisition; escaping only by selling his soul to
the devil. The devil prevents Ambrosio's final repentance, and informs
Ambrosio that Antonia is the monk's sister.

Ingrid Jonker lived an impossible contradiction, writing heart-rending
poetry about being a woman of privilege living under apartheid rule, all
the while dealing with pressure from the head of the censorship board, a
man who also happened to be her father. “Black Butterflies” is the
story of how Jonker, a woman with unending sexual cravings and a noted
mental imbalance, managed to cope with this dichotomy. In the opening,
the least poetic of a number of unconvincing metaphors writ large,
Jonker is saved from drowning by handsome publisher Jack Cope, an older
gentleman who immediately falls for the leggy writer. What he doesn’t
know is that her self-abuse, due to living under the rule of her
oppressive, emotionally-abusive father, has fractured her personality.
She is not the creator she becomes when she puts pen to paper, but
rather a little girl seeking stimulation (which she chases in a number
of unavailable men) and hoping for the approval of her father (an
impossibility).